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Jan. 5, 1932. w. D. WHITE ET AL 1,840,179

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INVENTOR WITNESSES J\ 2 56 0. WM Millan y W ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 5,1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE KWILLIAM DABNEY, WHITE AND CHARLESWRIGHT MACMILLAN, or PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY CALENDAR Application filedDecember 5, 1980. Serial No. 500,356.

This invention relates to calendars, and has particular reference to animproved dayby-day calendar, in which a subdivided strip having indiciadesignating the days of a given year, month and week is movable past thedisplay opening.

The present invention broadly aims to provide in a calendar of theindicated character,

. an improved means located within the display opening,- with which thedesignated strip'subdivisions cooperate for marking out the current day,while other remaining days past and/or future, are visible for readyreference. p a

The instant invention further aims to provide a calendar of thecharacter set forth, which employs but few and simple parts, capable ofeconomical production and assembly, which calendar may be operatedeither manually or mechanically, such as by a clock mechanism, and whichserves effectually to perform the function for which it is designed.WVith the above recited and other objects in view, reference is had tothe following description and accompanying drawings, in

whichthere is exhibited one example or embodiment of the inventiomwhilethe claims define the actual scope of the same.

Inthe drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view-of a calendar constructedin accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a face view thereof on an enlarged scale, parts being brokenaway and shown in section to disclose the underlying 5 structure.

'Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional. view taken approximately on theline indicated at 33" in Figure 2.

Figure 4is a fragmentary face view of the calendar strip.

Referring to the drawings by characters ofreferenoe, 5 designatesgenerally a casing or housing which includes a rear or bottom wall 6 andmarginal end and side walls 7 and '8, the front'or top being open and,in the example shown, being provided with a frame 9 defining a displayopening 10. Obviously, the casing or housing 5 may be constru'cted ofwood, as illustrated, or of metal or any equivalent material. The casingorhousing is divided by a transverse partition 11, which extends fromthe bottom or rear wall 6 to a point spaced from the plane of the frame9 and from one side wall 8 to the other, as clearly disclosed in Figures2 and 3 of the drawings. A backing panel 12 dis- 15, within whichtransversely arranged spools are mounted for rotation, access beinggained to the compartments 14 and 15 by removing the screws orequivalent fastening elements- 16 which secure the backing panel 12 inplace.

The spools as shown each include a cylindrical shank or core 17 havingreduced opposite extremities 18 and 19, the former being of greaterlength than the latter, to provide a manipulating extremity whichprotrudes beyond the casing or housing wall. The reduced extremitiesserve also as trunnions which bear in bearing openings 21 in the sidewalls 8 of the casing or housing. Disks 22 having apertures 23 of adiameter to snugly fit over the reduced extremities 18 serve as thespool flanges and may be secured thereto by a tack 24. A pair of plainwashers 25 with a split lock washer 26 may be positioned over thereduced extremity 18 of each spool and interposed between the disk 22and the inner surface of the side wall 8, while the remaining reducedterminal may have a plain washer 27 arranged thereo-ver and interposedbetween the disk and the inner surface of the side wall 8.

- A calendar strip 28 of a length to accommodate the weeks of one ormore years is initially wound on the spool in the compartment 15 and itsouter end is trained around one of the rounded edges 13, over the outerface of the backing panel 12 around the opposite rounded edge 13 andsecured to the core 17 of the spool in the other compartment 14. Thisdisposes a longitudinal portion of the entire printed width of thecalendar strip in the compartment 14 projects from the right-hand sideof the casing or hous ng, while the longer manipulating extremity 18'"of the spool in the compartment 15 projects from the left-hand sideofthecasing or housing 5, whereby both hands may be used inproperlyiadjusting' the exposed portion of the calendar stripwithreference to the frame opening 10. 1 I h The calendar strip as shown islongitudinally subdivided by the transverse longitudinally spacedlpairsof lines30 and transversely subdivided by the longitudinal lines 31presenting transverse rows of blocks or areas 32 representing the daysof the weeks of a given year. Between each pair of subdivision lines 3O,ind1c1a 33 are lnscrlbed, indlcating the name of the day'of theweek-,while the righthand area hasinscribed therein indicia 34indicating the year. Within the block or area 32 in-dicia 35 indicatethe date, of the day,

theremaining portion thereof affording adiaryspace upon whichthe usermay write matte'r,-such as appointments, engagements orother memoranda,The right-hand block or area 32 of each row willhave inscribed thereinindicia 36 indicating the name of the month, the number of the month andthe number of the week-of a given year.

I-norder to provide means within the confines of the frame opening 10,.with which the subdivisions of the strip cooperate to selectively markout the current day, a transversely angularly disposed edge or line 37is provided, which in the present instance is shown as the lower steppededge of a bar 38.- whichfforms a part of the frame 9 and whichsubdivides the frame opening so that past and future days are visible,in addition to; the current day marked out.

it will thus be seen From the foregoin that an improved calendar hasbeen devised, by virtue of which the user may at a glance determine thecurrent day while having reference to past and future days. The user mayalso instantly determine themonth, the number of the month and thenumber of the week, By adjusting the calendar strip 28 forwardly orrearwardly, days which are not simultaneously visible with the currentday may be referred to, as wellas memoranda whlch emay appear in thediary space allotted to. said days.

I While there has been illustrated and described; a single and preferredembodiment gitudinally spaced subdivisions representing the weeks of agiven year andhavingtrahsversely spaced subdivisions representing thedays of the week and a stationary element having correspondinglongitudinally and transversely spaced'means past which element thestrip is movable longitudinally and with which strip saidmeanscooperates to selectively mark out the current day.

I 2. A calendar including a strip having longitudinally spacedsubdivisions representing the weeks of a given year and havingtrapsversely spaced subdivisions representing the days of the weekand astationary element having corresponding longitudinally and transverselyspaced means past which element the strip is movable longitudinally andwith which strip said means cooperates to selectively mark out thecurrent day while displaying the days of the immediate future and thenear past.

, 3. :A calendar including a strip having longitudinally spacedsubdivisionsrepresenting theweeks of a given year and havingtransversely spaced subdivisions representing the days contained in saidweeks, acasing'having a display opening through which theentire widthofa portion of the length of the strip isvisible and a stationary elementhaving.

corresponding longitudinally and transversely spaced means past whichelement the strip a display opening through which the entire width of aportion of the length of the strip is visible, a stationary elementhaving correspond nglongitudinally and transversely spaced means pastwhich element the strip ismovable longitudinally and with-whichstripsaidmeans cooperates toselectivelymark out the current day and week andindiciain said subdivisions setting forth respectively the namegofftheday, the date of the-day, .theyear,. the month, the number of the month,and the number of the week.

5. A calendar including a strip having longitudinally spacedsubdivisions representing the weeks of: a given year and having trans-Verselyspaced subdivisions representing the days of the week and astationary element presenting a: transversely angular edge, the

leading and trailing ends of which edge are spaced apart a distanceequal to the spacing of the longitudinal subdlvisions, and past whichelement the strip is movable longitudinally and with which strip saidangular edge cooperates to selectively mark out the current day.

6. A calendar including a strip having 1011- gitudinal subdivisionsrepresenting the weeks ofa given year and having transverse subdivisionsrepresenting the days of the week, a casing having a display openingthrough which the entire width of a portion of the length of thecalendar is visible and means within the confines of said opening pastwhich the strip is movable longitudinally and with which means saidstrip cooperates to selectively mark out the current day, said meansconsisting of a bar disposed transversely of the path of movement of thestrip and provided with an angularly disposed edge, the longitudinalsubdivisions being spaced apart a distance equal to the distance betweenthe leading and trailing ends of the angularly disposed edge.

7 A calendar including a strip having longitudinal subdivisionsrepresenting the weeks of a given year and having transversesubdivisions representing the days of the weeks, a casing having adisplay opening through which the entire width of a portion of thelength of the calendar is visible and means within the confines of saidopening past which the strip is movable longitudinally and with whichmeans said strip cooperates to selectively mark out the current day,said means consisting of a bar disposed transversely of the path ofmovement of the strip and provided with a stepped edge, the longitudinalsubdivisions being spaced apart a distance equal to the distance betweenthe leading and trailing steps of the stepped edge. WILLIAM DABNEYWHITE.

CHARLES WRIGHT MACMILLAN.

